Divers Beware: Training Dives Present Serious Hazards to Fire Fighters.

摘要

Fire fighters who participate in dive training risk lung damage, illness, or drowning. NIOSH investigated fatalities that have occurred during these training exercises and developed recommendations to decrease these risks. Fire fighters may be called on to perform public safety diving actions, including search and rescue and recovery missions. Fire departments and fire fighters preparing for underwater operations must be aware that dive training can be hazardous. Diving hazards include entanglement, running out of air, lung overexpansion injury, panic attacks, and decompression sickness. Entanglement in rope or aquatic plants is an extremely serious hazard that can prevent divers from returning to the surface.